The California State Assembly’s Health Committee passed a labor-backed bill on a strict 11-4 partisan vote last week under which the state would create a commission to socialize the price of all healthcare service costs.

TEL AVIV – Unlike their U.S. counterparts, Israeli doctors are not required to be vaccinated against influenza and in cases where they do receive the flu shot, they are forbidden from displaying a pin advertising that fact to patients, The Jerusalem Post reported on Wednesday.

All hospitals in Britain’s socialised National Health Service (NHS) have been ordered to cancel all non-emergency operations until at least the end of this month, as the worst winter crisis in 30 years takes hold.

The health crisis in socialist Venezuela is now reaching apocalyptic proportions as hospitals and pharmacies have just a fraction of the medicine and resources required to give people adequate medical treatment.

LONDON (AP) — An American doctor specializing in treating rare genetic conditions is set to meet with other specialists treating Charlie Gard, assessing the critically ill 11-month-old for the first time.

TEL AVIV – A senior Palestinian Authority official has donated tens of thousands of shekels to the pediatric oncology department of Rambam Medical Center after receiving life-saving cancer treatment at the hospital.

Venezuela released public health statistics for the first time in nearly two years this week, revealing skyrocketing infant and maternal mortality rates and a boom in the spread of diseases like malaria. Diphtheria, a disease Venezuela had fully eradicated by the 1990s, has returned.

Breast cancer patients in socialism-ravaged Venezuela are demanding that the Venezuelan Institution for Social Security, which provides health care, provide them access to better quality medication. They claim the Cuban-made drugs they have been taking come with a host of side effects, including intense pain.

Venezuelan hospitals have been forced to tell patients to bring their own bandages, gauze, and medicine as they run out of basic supplies, with doctors picking and choosing only the emergency room cases they believe they can help because of the limited equipment they have.

The Environmental Protection Agency has found the lethal “superbug,” carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE), in a sewage plant in Los Angeles that treats waste and releases it into the Pacific Ocean.

Two professors of public policy conclude that governments are more likely to violate environmental law than private owners. “Publicly-owned facilities are more likely than similar privately-owned facilities to violate regulatory requirements under the CAA [Clean Air Act] and the SDWA [Safe Drinking Water Act],” as their recent study notes.

As the financial crisis in Greece worsens, more and more sectors of the Greek economy are taking hits, including the health care system. Greece has a socialized health care system and now that the government is running out of money, so are hospitals.